This is a grim Super Bowl traffic report that has nothing to do with road congestion.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other high-profile officials are using the spotlight of the 48th Super Bowl to shine attention on human trafficking, referred to as the “modern slavery.”

Advertisements are appearing on Times Square, bringing a sober message to counter the other party images of America’s premier sporting event.

Human trafficking often involves forcing people into prostitution or labor to pay their debt for being brought to America.

According to Forbes, 10,000 prostitutes were brought to Miami for the 2010 Super Bowl and 133 minors were arrested for prostitution during the 2011 Super Bowl in Dallas.

Gov. Christie: 'Don't even try it'New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other high-profile officials are using the spotlight of the NY/NJ Super Bowl to shine attention on human trafficking, called the “modern slavery.” (Source: GovChristie)

"One hundred and fifty years after the Civil War, we have slaves in our country," said former New Jersey Attorney General and U.S. Sen. Jeff Chiesa, who joined Christie and Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, at a security compound in Bergen County.

Christie said of human trafficking: "Intimidation is its biggest element."

"You've got folks who believe they're coming to this country for one reason — to purse freedom and liberty and economic opportunity — and yet they are literally enslaved," he said. "The reason this is so hard to detect is because most of these folks come from places where law enforcement is not part of the solution, it's part of the problem."

During an event two months ago in Arizona, home of next year’s Super Bowl, Christie called human trafficking “abject slavery” and called on political leaders to publicly shame the classified-advertisement websites that indirectly foster it.

Cindy McCain said she has talked with NFL officials in the hopes that future Super Bowl host cities will in part be chosen on "what kind of human trafficking laws they have on the books."

She and Chiesa said the fight against human trafficking needs to continue beyond Super Bowl week.

"The Super Bowl will leave here on Monday morning, and human trafficking will not," Chiesa said. "The victims will still be here. The predators will still be here. And we need to be prepared to deal with them long term."

Lexie Smith, 22, put a face on the problem of sexual exploitation of children.

She lived it.

"I grew up in a middle-class, suburban Chicago," she began. "I have a protective and loving mother and father, yet I was exploited at a very young age. My story begins at the age of 2, with an opportunistic cousin addicted to pornography, and I'm his sexual experiment. He trained me well for the adolescent pedophile who would come into my life by the age of 10 through the careful coordination of a family member receiving things in exchange for turning a blind eye. Conditioned, threatened, silenced and ashamed. This continued for 10 years, from the age of 2 to 12.

"The details of this life-altering event are something I don't have the time to share," she continued. "But I will tell you this. The moment I was first raped at the age of 6, everything changed."

Smith has dedicated her life to eradicating modern day slavery, sharing her story in schools to empower students to speak up for one another.